© ZIMBABWE Republic Police (ZRP) has arrested three people for copper cables theft in Middle Sabi, Manicaland. According to assistant commissioner Paul Nyathi, the police received a tip-off from an informer and laid an ambush where they arrested the trio who had a Madza B1800 loaded with approximately one tonne of cables. [GoogleAd] “The ZRP…
© AS prices of basically everything in Zimbabwe continue to skyrocket, political and social analysts have called on President Emmerson Mnangagwa to be transparent and accountable for his government’s attitude towards key issues currently affecting the people. [GoogleAd] The analysts said corruption has to be decisively dealt with as presently government’s behaviour reveals a tacit…
© ZIMBABWE’s tobacco output is expected to decline to 200 million kilogrammes this year owing to unfavourable weather conditions under which the crop was grown, the industry regulator has said. [GoogleAd] Last year, the country produced an all-time high of 252 million kilogrammes of tobacco, earning at least a billion dollars in revenue. The tobacco…
© About $21,5 million collected under the Tobacco Levy since 2015 has not been disbursed as the tobacco industry battles to meet the 2020 Global Tobacco Cigarette Companies Guidelines on producing the crop in a sustainable way. [GoogleAd] The Global Tobacco Cigarette Companies Guidelines state that as from 2020, international buyers will no longer…
© Livestock sector could earn about $1,5 million annually from the exportation of low-grade cattle hides, a report has revealed. [GoogleAd] “The bulk of Zimbabwe’s hides — 70 percent of gross supplies from monitored abattoirs and rural slaughters — are of low-quality and presently are literally going to waste yet there is an active second-tier…
© Mutemarare, 61, walks through his corn field, desperately looking for remnants of maize.He’s not expecting to find any, as most of his crop wilted before reaching maturity, the result of the devastating drought that has hit Zimbabwe. [GoogleAd] Before Cyclone Idai wreaked havoc on eastern Zimbabwe last month, the country was already in the…
© IT’S around 4pm in the sprawling town of Chitungwiza at Chigovanyika Shopping Centre, flies spin and tumble on the spreading beds of raw meat; women and men shout themselves hoarse at the same time, furiously warding off the excited flies. It is a war of sorts — a war that is waged daily as…
© IN the scorching heat amid gusty winds in a hot afternoon in Gokwe North, busty leaves swirl around Mercy Shanya from Mandiya Village as she sits under an acacia tree by a bone-dry river, queuing with her animals for water. [GoogleAd] Shanya, a herder who keeps cattle, sheep and goats for a living, had…
© A CHIEFTAINSHIP wrangle in Makoni, where a member of the Muswere clan has dragged President Emmerson Mnangagwa and Local Government minister July Moyo to the High Court, has reignited debate over what could be causing these disputes. [GoogleAd] In the High Court application, which is also citing Chief Makoni Colgan Gwasira as a respondent,…
© HARARE has become one huge dumpsite. Small mounds of garbage can be seen at every street corner in the city’s suburbs because council is failing to collect rubbish on schedule. [GoogleAd] Ideally, council should collect garbage in the suburbs twice every week. Because of the depleted fleet and the prevailing fuel shortages, it has…
